Eric Burke, Software Engineer at Square

Eric Burke is a Software Engineer at Square where he works on the Square Card Reader and Pay with Square Android applications. Eric has presented at technical conferences, taught many Java classes, and even wrote three books for O’Reilly. He is passionate about creating delightful, pixel-perfect user interfaces on Android.

Presentation: "Android App Anatomy"

Track: Java Renaissance

Time: Thursday 16:10 - 17:00

Location: Seacliff CD

Abstract: "Android has come a long way since version 1.0. Thanks to the compatibility library and ActionBarSherlock we can bring the latest Android experience to any device. In this talk, Eric Burke shows how to craft modern Android applications in a clean, maintainable way using the newest APIs and open source frameworks.

Topics include:

- Lifecycle deep
- dive: loaders, fragments, and dialogsOne activity,
- many fragmentsAvoiding tight
- coupling with Otto, an open source Android event busMaking
- dependency injection fast through code generation
"